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Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes |
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| Authors: | J. Casares P. G. Jonker |
| Affiliation: | 1. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205, La Laguna, S/C de Tenerife, Spain 2. Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, 38206, La Laguna, S/C de Tenerife, Spain 3. SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA, Utrecht, The Netherlands 4. Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 5. Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA |
| Abstract: | We discuss the method, and potential systematic effects therein, used for measuring the mass of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries. We restrict our discussion to the method that relies on the validity of Kepler’s laws; we refer to this method as the dynamical method. We briefly discuss the implications of the mass distribution of stellar-mass black holes and provide an outlook for future measurements. Further, we investigate the evidence for the existence of intermediate-mass black holes i.e. black holes with masses above 100 M⊙, the limit to the black hole mass that can be produced by stellar evolution in the current Universe. |
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